So I am perusing the “Latest Headlines” RSS feed in Firefox this morning and notice the word ubuntu. It turns out Bill Clinton used it as a key term in a recent speech to the Labour party conference. The article goes on to discuss the increasing ubiquity of the word’s usage, including the mention of Ubuntu the operating system at the end of the article. And apart from a picture of Clinton at the top of the article, the only other image is of an Ubuntu thong like the ones you can buy off of Cafépress.com. Of all the choices, why pick an Ubuntu thong? One person suggested to me that Clinton and a thong was a natural fit. 8^)

From a “Required Skills” section of a recent position description:

“Motivated self-staring individual; Team player”

Huh.

In the context of an eCommerce scoping discussion:

“This is an actual virtual product.”

Whatever happened to those shirts that seemed to be the standard uniform for women around 1999-2001? You know, the fitted one with a collar and those 3/4-length sleeves? It seemed there was a prerequisite to own one in French blue before you could move on to the other colors. I thought those were neat. They seem to have been exiled; haven’t seen one in ages. I miss them.

So I have been loving my Nokia N90 phone as far as functionality goes, but there are a few design issues that bug me. One is the rather primitive battery cover, which I managed to re-fasten a number of times until it finally came off without me realizing it. Beside that, a piece of the metal inlay by the camera button keeps popping loose on one end. I figure US$650 is way too much for a phone with pieces popping off, so I contact Nokia to send it in under warrantly.

And that’s where we pick up in the story…

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